Paint compound



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RANSOM K. BURT, OF HADDAM, KANSAS.

PAINT COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,727, dated June 28, 1867.

Application filed March 8, 1886.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RANSOM K. BURT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Haddam, in the county of Washington and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paint Compounds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved paint compound for covering the wood and brick work of houses, which will first be described, and then claimed.

My paint compound consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated, namely: common hard soap, twelve ounces; water, three quarts; rosin, four ounces; coloring material, sufficient quantity; raw linseed-oil, one-halfpint. Theseingredients are mixed or combined by dissolving the soap in the water, then adding the rosin in a pulverized state,and boiling the solution until the rosin is dissolved. \Vhen cool, add any desired coloring-matter inquantity sufficient to produce the color Wanted and mix thoroughly; finally add the raw linseed-oil, which must be Serial No. 194,447. (Spec mens) well incorporated. The quantities named produce one gallon of the paint compound.

This paint is readily applied with a brush. It adheres well to the wood and becomes hard, but will 'not crack or scale off, and is as little affected by exposure to the weather as other paint. no effect on it.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y The process of preparing paint compound, consisting in dissolving common hard soap in water, then adding rosin in a pulverized state and boiling the solution until the rosin is dissolved, then allowing the solution to cool, coloring the same, and finally adding the raw linseed-oil, all in about the proportions specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RANSOM K. BURT.

WVitnesses:

R. VINoENT, J. F. FLOOK.

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